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Models and Aspects - How to use MDSD and AOSD together
Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) as well as Model-Driven Software
Development (MSDD) are both becoming more and more important in modern software
engineering. Both approaches attack important problems of traditional software development.
AOSD addresses the modularization (and thus, reuse) of cross-cutting concerns (CCC).
MDSD allows developers to express structures and algorithms in a more problem-domain
oriented language, and automates many of the tedious aspects of software development.
But how do the two approaches relate? And how, if at all, can they be used together? This
tutorial looks at both of these questions. The first one – how AOSD and MDSD relate – is
discussed in the first part of the tutorial. The second, and main part of the tutorial introduces
six patterns of how MDSD and AOSD can be used together. These range from using code
generation templates as a simple means to separate concerns to using aspect-oriented
modeling concepts to separate concerns in the models.
All the patterns are illustrated with practical real-world examples taken from various modeldriven
software development projects.
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